Palak Mittal bags Rs One-crore salary package from Amazon

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in particular have established a reputation for generating graduates with extraordinary talent who frequently receive record-breaking employment offers.

Palak Mittal, a BTech student at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Allahabad, defied expectations by breaking the mold and receiving a lucrative pay contract worth more than Rs 1 crore from Amazon.

Getting Off To A Strong Start In The Tech World

According to her LinkedIn profile, Mittal started working at tech giant Amazon's Berlin branch in August 2022 as a Software Developer for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Notably, Mittal is employed by PhonePe right now in their Bengaluru office. Her resume tells the story of a talented software developer who is knowledgeable in serverless technologies and can create infrastructure as code.

AWS Lambda, AWS S3, AWS Cloudwatch, Typescript, Java, and SQL are among the cloud computing platforms and programming languages that Mittal has familiarity with, according to his credentials. She also exhibits a noteworthy talent for assuming full responsibility of projects, building software components, and performing data modeling and analysis on complex problems.

The Future Stars Of Tech From IIT Allahabad

Achieving stereotype-busting and raising the bar for Indian tech talent is not just Mittal's accomplishment. Her IIIT Allahabad friends have kept pace with her. Anurag Makade, a classmate, received an even greater payout from Google for Rs 1.25 crore, while Akhil Singh was awarded a commendable Rs 1.2 crore contract with Rubrik. These three IIIT grads are setting new standards for Indian tech graduates globally and creating ripples in the global tech scene.